isa-normaladvance-1914-00061

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE61ally low. The average will not exceed one hundred dollars per month. Moreover, the engineer is as a rule a hired man, and as such is liable to discharge at any time.How can any of these men help the United States to keep down wild flurries of prosperity or to obliterate panics? They have no influence regarding them because they have no knowledge concerning their causes. It is the men at the head of our large manufacturing concerns, the men at the head of our railroads and our large banks, who influence and control our nation.More than ever before is coming the need for young men who can step in and take up the positions as administrative heads of the firms. That college men are needed for these positions is not even questioned, for the value of a col¬ lege education has been acknowledged every¬ where. The old heads of our large firms who have grown up with the business are either dying off or retiring, and the need for young men properly trained in college, who can step into the vacancies, is being sorely felt.There is very likely no college at present thatprepares its graduates directly for such work. HowTever, our modern colleges have enough elective subjects such as business mathematics, bookkeeping, practical economics, physics, chemistry, etc., so that any determined student should be able to make out a course for himself. He is most certainly sorely needed, and would have little trouble in finding an excellent posi¬ tion.Not only our business houses, but also the nation needs him. Times have changed. Up to the present time our country has grown in spite of itself because of its many new openings, and great resources. But now the United States is ceasing to be a new country, and with the re¬ cent opening of China, Africa and the South American countries, there will be much com¬ petition. The nation needs capable young men thoroughly trained in economics and business, to eliminate wild-cat booms and their resulting depression, who, in fact, can man the business interests of the country, and see that they are conducted smoothly, and are at all times safe.A wise man takes a step at a time he estab¬ lishes one foot before he takes up the other.—Sanskrit Translation.
Source:	http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/32505
Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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